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Gee Kay, I don't know about perfection, but I'm awfully glad you liked it! The misty effect was fun... I started with just colors brighter/darker in the places I needed them, then "pulled" the rocks out of that background. This made the effect work pretty much automatically - once I figured it out!

I'm really staring to see your b&w experiment with technique really come through on this one. It's especially evident in the shadow area of the front attacker's armor. Lookin' good man! Can't wait to get the cards of these.

Evoking Frazetta is always great, Chris - thanks! (I tried to make everyone more-or-less off balance to heighten the anticipation, and that's a pretty "Frazetta" thing, I think... Also the "baseball" guy's legs on the right have that Frazetta anatomy, esp. the knees!)

I have been sort of starting each AGOT picture with the idea of doing a different "color flavor" than the previous - and with 15 total, that's a lot of choices! So I wanted a dusty, yellow/brown feel for this one. As with many of my pictures both digital and painted I began with a simple wash of color for cohesion, and painted on top of that. Glad you liked it!

You are very kind Marley... Thanks! How long? This one took longer than most of the GOT series, because of the extra characters. Let's see... about 1/2 hour for the sketch, first. After approval, about 1/2 hour to find good reference of the horse,15 minutes to shoot a picture of a friend as a model for the guy on the left, and another 1/2 hour for the final sketch. Then about 15 minutes for scanning, cleaning, and making some adjustments in PhotoShop. That got me to the rendering stage. I started rendering at 8:00 PM and finished around 1:30 AM. So that's almost 8 hours total - not exactly cost effective. I really got slowed down by the areal perspective - getting the receding colors to look just right was very important. And also, each figure I render (5 in this case, including the horse) takes a while.

Mmmmm anticipation, you capture the emotion well here. I like the natural tones in this, my first impression is some Frazetta influence, but I've been looking at a lot of his work lately for inspiration and am biased hehehe. Damn I still need to work on rocks...anyway I digress, fine work, thumbs up, I'm gonna go sleep now.